pagestyle and margins

rbuser

Hi there,

I am building something that would exports reports as an PDF file
however, Official paper would be very nice, with company logo and all.

Now is it so that often that sort of things (logos/text) goes outside of the
printable area for a printer.

If I add an pagestyle band to the report you can't exceed the papersize
minus margins.

is there any way to bypass this, so I can add a non-margin pagestyle add it
programmically to other margin-based reports but the pagestyle ignores the
margins ?

Paul

nicocizik

Hi Paul,

This is possible to do by creating a draw command in code and placing it in
the page style where ever you would like. The link below gives a good
example of how this can be done. In the example I first create a
TppDrawCommand that displays a blue rectangle. Then to get the rectangle to
print in the proper order (ie. page style objects always print first), I
extract all TppDrawCommands and temporarily place them in a TList. Finally
I assign all the drawcommands back to the report using another loop. Hope
this helps.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/AddDrawCommandPageStyle.zip

--

rbuser

not exactly what I was looking for.

is it possible to add a property in the pagestyl band that says 'Ignore
margins'
which effectivly removes the marginleft & margintop from the left & top of
the printed object

So we can make an pagestyle, and then copy the objects one by one as given
in an earlier example. Or a way to load a pagestyle into a report from a
file/database that does effectively the same.

Cheers,

Paul Menheere

digitalmetaphors

The pagestyle prints behind the other bands. It still generates draw
commands to the same page object that the other bands generate draw commands
for. In the report layout, each page can only have one printer setup. There
is an unprintable area that each printer has. This is the smallest margin
that you can specify on the report. If you want to use larger margins for
the layout but use the max space for the page style, then you could shift
the components in the report to appear to have more space to the left and
right of them rather than relying on the actual margins defined for the
report which limits the band space available when designing the report. This
would be the only other way to accomplish this in the layout without
manipulating the draw commands generated on the page. One other change you
could make would be to hook into the draw commands created by the page style
components (OnDrawCommandCreate events) in order to use the demo to
"stretch" the draw commands to occupy the available space that is really on
the printer. This way you could still define larger margins in the report
layout and then be able to have a pagestyle somewhat defined in the layout.
Then when you generate, the page style draw commands stretch so that the
report appears the way that you want it to.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors